User talk:Andreg-p

September 2021
Hello, Andreg-p. We welcome your contributions, but it appears as if your primary purpose on Wikipedia is to add citations to research published by a small group of researchers.

Scientific articles should mainly reference review articles to ensure that the information added is trusted by the scientific community.

Editing in this way is also a violation of the policy against using Wikipedia for promotion and is a form of conflict of interest in Wikipedia – please see WP:SELFCITE and WP:MEDCOI. The editing community considers excessive self-citing to be a form of spamming on Wikipedia (WP:REFSPAM) and the edits will be reviewed and the citations removed where it was not appropriate to add them.

Finally, please be aware that the editing community highly values expert contributors – please see WP:EXPERT. I do hope you will consider contributing more broadly. If you wish to contribute, please first consider citing review articles written by other researchers in your field and which are already highly cited in the literature. If you wish to cite your own research, please start a new thread on the article talk page and add requestedit to ask a volunteer to review whether or not the citation should be added.

MrOllie (talk) 11:58, 17 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello MrOllie, thanks for your message. I thought I backed up my edit sufficiently with relevant other work too. Overall, the edit contained 5 citations of which 2 referred to my work. I am aware of WP:SELFCITE and honestly believed the edits was far from excessive. I would appreciate if you can outline a little further why you consider this as excessive so that I can avoid contributing in the wrong way. Andreg-p (talk) 13:24, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Excepting a couple of grammar fixes, all the edits of substance that you have made to Wikipedia articles have included citations to yourself. - MrOllie (talk) 13:42, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I get your point. Since I always added other references and had the intention to strengthen an article, I was under the wrong impression that it is alright. Thank you for your feedback. Andreg-p (talk) 13:52, 20 September 2021 (UTC)